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When your crowd of attendants so loudly applaud you, Pomponius, it is not you, but your banquet, that is eloquent.

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If you want him to mourn, you had best leave him nothing.
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Himself Leaving Mourn
The bee is enclosed, and shines preserved in amber, so that it seems enshrined in its own nectar.
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Nectar Preserve Shine Shrine
The shameless Chloe placed on the tombs of her seven husbands the inscription, “The work of Chloe.” How could she have expressed herself more plainly?
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Expression Inscription Place Shame
My poems are naughty, but my life is pure.
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Life Naughty Poem Purity
Neither fear your death’s day nor long for it.
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Day Death Fear Yourself
You ask what a nice girl will do? She won’t give an inch, but she won’t say no.
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Herself Woman
There is nothing more contemptible than a bald man who pretends to have hair.
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Hairs Man Myself Pretend
Tomorrow’s life is too late. Live today.
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Inspirational Life Live
You puff the poets of other days, The living you deplore. Spare me the accolade: your praise Is not worth dying for.
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Death Live Poet Praise Worth
The virtuous man is never a novice in worldly things.
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Man Virtue World
I’m what I seem; not any dyer gave, But nature dyed this colour that I have.
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Color Myself Natural
Life consists not merely in existing, but in enjoying health.
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Enjoyment Existence Health Life
He who weighs his burdens, can bear them.
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Burden Himself Weigh
Tis easy to write epigrams nicely, but to write a book is hard.
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Book Easy Hard Writing Yourself
Gifts are like fish-hooks; for who is not aware that the greedy char is deceived by the fly which he swallows?
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Aware Fly Gift Himself Swallow
I know all that better than my own name.
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Better Myself Name

When your crowd of attendants so loudly applaud you, Pomponius, it is not you, but your banquet, that is eloquent.

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